Emily or Jane?

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My friend is going to be having a girl soon. She wants to name her either Emily or Jane.

She’s going to name her after Emily Brontë or Jane Austen.

I’ve told her I prefer Emily.

What do you think?

Jane is number 53 of the most used girls names in the UK so far this year. It must be making a come-back!!

I don't know any young Janes.

@Followthelight99

Jane is number 53 of the most used girls names in the UK so far this year. It must be making a come-back!!

If Jane enters even the top 250 girls names when the 2019 ONS data is published I will eat my hat. It was at #1272 in 2018, given to a grand total of 26 babies in England and Wales. Even the most stratospheric climbers of recent years, Luna and Arya, didn’t manage a jump of 1000 places in one year.

Are you looking at Nameberry? Those lists are taken from the number of hits the names get on their website, not the number of babies actually registered with that name.

Emily
Jane us very plain and also reminds me of the laziest person I know and also my MIL

Not keen on either but I prefer Emily.

My niece is called Jane. Lovely name.

Jane is number 53 of the most used girls names in the UK so far this year.

It isn’t. It’s number 1272 for the last year available.

Jane is number 53 of the most used girls names in the UK so far this year.

That seems very high! Where did you find this statistic?

From those two, Emily would be my choice.

www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/most-popular-baby-names-2020-a4424656.html

That's the link I'm going by. I'm not very clued up with these things though so probably my mistake.

Claire and Audrey are also on the top 50 on that list

@Followthelight99

The list you found Jane on is the nameberry baby names website list.

I went onto their website and it says:

Note: Nameberry’s popularity list is calculated based on which names attracted the most views of our website.

So it is entirely unrelated to what people are actually naming their children!

I think that looks like it's some Nameberry set of lists, not a list for the country. Darkgreener and other sources suggest very few little girls are being called Jane right now.

Jayne/Jane is overused as a middle name (It’s mine ) but I think sounds lovely as a first name and will be unique without sounding made-up and desperate to stand out like a lot of names are sounding these days. I’ve always liked Emily but it is overused and has lots of names that sound similar. To be honest I love Bronte as a name but I know that’s not what you asked

Sorry, my mistake! (I'm thick when it comes to things like that).

Emily is a lovely name but so common nowadays. Jane is a pretty name too and she would definitely be the only one in the class so that would be my choice.

@Followthelight99 not your fault I've been taken in by that Nameberry list before but like others have said it's not based on what people are actually registering their children as and it's a US site. It's usually the more unusual names that people search for so that's why you get such a random mix of unusual names on Nameberry's top 100 lists.
The fact Jane is so high on Nameberrys list does suggest it's going to surge though if a lot of people are looking the name up.

I personally prefer Emily ❤️

I think Jane is definitely worth a revival. Along with Louise and Marie, almost all of my school friends had Jane/Jayne as their middle name. It’s pretty!

I love both names. If I was pushed I'd go for Jane now.

I've just watched a clip with a 5 year old Jane, Jimmy Kimmel's daughter. It is probably on the way to revival, at least in the US.

Emily is so so overused and dull now. Along with Amelie and Amelia.

So I vote Jane.

She could go for Emily Jane, and everyone would end up calling her Jane because everyone else will be Emily.

There are too many Emilys so I vote Jane.